Call for papers has opened 19th of February 2025. Remember to send your abstract latest 30th of April 2025 (extended due date). If you have questions, please contact us at rsd2025@tuni.fi.
Link to the Call for Papers form
Info about a new format for the event
Fifteen Minute Discussion Tables
Within the 60-minute programme slot there will be a maximum of three round table moderated discussions. Each table will be hosted by one or two “presenter(s)” who will moderate a discussion with delegates participating in their table. Host presenters need only have a question and some expertise in that area to provide a 2-minute introduction and moderate a 13-minute discussion (consider preparing some questions).
Topics
1) Pre-award
Possible Formats: Workshop with 2-3 parallel groups focusing on exchange of best practices for some 20-30 min
Invited abstracts could focus on e.g.
- How to stay relevant in shaping brilliant ideas into funded R&I projects by using GenAI and by anticipating the changing demands of private and public funders.
- How to navigate in the expanding Pre-award jungle – share best practices and keep your skills up to date!
2) Post-award
Possible Formats: short presentations, workshops, discussion tables
Invited abstracts could focus on
- How to navigate in the expanding Post-award jungle – share best practices and keep your skills up to date!
3) Research security and compliance
Possible formats: round table following workshops, poster presentations, short presentations, case studies
Invited abstracts could focus on
1) Research Security in general
2) Sanctions and Export Control in Research
- How the significance of export control rules and sanctions has changed during the past few years
- What are dual-use products and how to spot if your research includes them?
3) Legal Aspects of Research Security
- Expert lesson(s) on the topic (incl. Export control in brief, practical examples)
- Legal and Practical Risks posed by AI and how to mitigate them as a part of the research security process
4) Impact-innovation-valorizations
Possible Formats: benchmarking workshop, short presentations, discussion tables
1) Different approaches to support Innovations.
2) From research to impact.
5) Partnerships and industry collaboration
Finland’s competitiveness and wellbeing are built on competence, research and innovations. Companies are key research partners and engines of making choices for higher education institutions and research institutions. In order to strengthen, broaden and increase the effectiveness of the competence spearhead, research and the networks that utilize it must be grouped into larger competence centres and ecosystems. (TEM_ national RDI roadmap).
Possible Formats: short presentations, discussion tables
Invited abstracts could focus on
- How to build long lasting partnerships? Lessons learned/ case studies
- What are the roles of different organization in building competence-based ecosystems
- How current instruments like Flagships, Veturit or similar works, what have we learned?
- What is the role of students in partnerships?
6) Sustainable and Open Science
Format: short presentations, workshops, discussion tables
Invited abstracts could focus on
- Fulfilling Requirements: How researchers meet the demands of funders and home organisations while demonstrating scientific impact and transparency.
- Sustainability: Incorporating sustainability in open science practices.
- Research Services: The role of support staff in open science and sustainability requirements, from grant applications and project initiation to ongoing project coordination and final reporting to funders.
- Collaborative Support: The collaborative efforts of various national and international stakeholders in supporting open science initiatives.
- Monitoring Outcomes: Methods for monitoring and evaluating the outcomes of open science and sustainability practices.
7) Versatile science communication
Science communication plays an important role in the societal impact of research. Communication tools, services and practices are diverse, and content needs to reach a wide variety of audiences.
Format: discussion tables, short presentations, workshops
Invited abstracts could focus on
- Why is science communication needed, to whom it is directed, and why? What is the role of communication in research and development projects? How do you activate experts to communicate?
- How is science communication linked to other research services and their development?
- How does science communication support open science? What role does Finnish play in relation to international science communication?
- What is successful impact communication? How do we ensure the availability of information and social interaction through communication?
- Is AI the best co-worker in science communication? How do we control technology, so it doesn’t control us?
8) Responsible Science, Research Ethics, and Research Integrity
Protecting the targets of the research and other parties from possible negative effects of the research is essential in responsible and ethical research. Adhering to good research practices and the principles of research integrity is likewise important to ensure that research is conducted according to highest ethical standards.
Possible Formats: short presentations, workshops
Invited abstracts could focus on
- How effective are the requirements in research integrity guidelines? How are requirements from the guidelines integrated to research processes and how do research performing organizations support the researchers in this?
- What is the role of research ethics and responsible science in a world of wars? How are ethical aspects considered by researchers and research performing organizations when the research is for military applications? How can research ethics guide through the challenges of being compliant with sanctions and export controls, and understanding dual use? Being ethical usually equals being legal and a touch more.
- Everything else in responsible science and research ethics: for example, new perspectives from new research ethical guidelines, best practices, and role of research services
9) EU R&I Policy, ERA actions and lobbying
How do we influence R&I policies and programmes at national and European level? How we support the implementation of the new ERA Policy Agenda across institutional structures?
Possible Formats: panel discussion following workshop
Invited abstracts could focus on:
1) Processes to establish and communicate own institution’s interests regarding national and European R&I policies and programs.
2) Processes to advance own institution’s progress towards ERA goals
10) Beyond EU – Africa, Asia, USA
Our universities are global actors. Researchers engage internationally in various ways. In addition to traditional academic research collaborations, such as supervision or co-publications, researchers are tangled with funding from foreign agencies and foundations, development programs, NGO’s or they may be collecting data on location to conduct their research. Today all this is challenged by geopolitical tensions and risks. Responsible research has become a buzzword in our universities research support functions, as universities are forced to build practices to manage knowledge exchange and safeguard dual-use research.
Possible Formats: workshops, short presentations
Invited abstracts could focus on:
1) Case studies about the various ways and challenges that rise from our universities’ global research collaboration.
2) Experiences and good practices learned about funding beyond EU, collaboration on capacity development, global knowledge exchange practices, or universities as actors of science diplomacy.
3) Topics on how universities implement responsible research to their practices.
11) RDI strategies and their implementation at the organizational level/ Current topics at Research development work
Possible Formats: short presentations, workshops, discussion tables
Invited abstracts could focus on
- What have we learned about RDI strategy work?
- How have organizations adapted the new RDI law to their processes?
- Current topics at the research development?
- How the RDI strategy work is organized and the benefits or pitfalls of the current practices?
- How to develop our institutions’ excellence in research
- Forecasting – Full magic or the secure of organizations strategic work?
12) Future of the RDI profession and competence
Possible Formats: discussion tables, short presentations
Invited abstracts could focus on
- Emerging role of research administrators within the culture of research
- How AI or digitalization will change or has changed our profession
- How to lead teams for success